(5 Sep 2008) SHOTLIST
Gori, Georgia
1. Damaged apartment building in Gori
2. Man cleaning up rubble outside of building
3. Workers on terrace cleaning and repairing
4. Pile of debris
5. Workers on terrace cleaning and repairing
6. Tent city for internally displaced people in Gori
7. Woman and her grandchildren walking inside tent toward mini-stove
8. Woman stirring soup
9. Children eating inside tent
10. Laundry
11. SOUNDBITE (Georgian) Lena Shoshiashivili, Gori Resident, Internally Displaced Person:
"When Russia dropped three bombs in Gori we fled our houses. I was very scared. I work there. So I took the kids and we fled and the only thing I could take with me was the wet clothes of the kids and we fled into the forest."
12. Woman and grandchild inside tent
13. Various of UNHCR tents
14. Boys outside tents
Karaleti, Georgia (just outside Gori)
15. Russian-manned checkpoint
16. Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) monitor speaking with Russian soldiers
17. OSCE monitor speaking with Russian soldiers
18. Russian soldier checking civilian car at checkpoint
19. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Captain Igor Elizarov, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe Military monitor:
"We are military monitors from the OSCE. We are continuing our mission according to the mandate. We are patrolling the territory and also conducting the monitoring."
20. Convoy of European parliament delegation arriving at checkpoint
21. Various of European parliament chairman of subcommittee on defence and security talking to Russian soldiers at checkpoint
22. Russian soldiers checkpoint
23. SOUNDBITE (English) Karl von Wogau, European parliament's chairman subcommittee on defence and security:
"I have gone there and I have asked to be permitted to cross and to see the border and further on to go to Tskhinvali and they told me that it was first reported to their general, then they told me this was not possible and I said that I consider this border control as illegal because it is not covered by international law."
24. Russian soldiers digging in behind barbed wire
STORYLINE
For Georgians victims struggling to get by in the wake of the conflict with Russia, the humanitarian aid brought by the American naval ship, the USS Whitney will no doubt be a welcome relief.
As the clean up and reparation of buildings continued in Gori, the US naval vessel anchored outside the key Georgian port of Poti.
Many Georgians are still struggling to get by in the wake of the conflict.
But until they are fit for habitation, many of their residents have been classified as internally displaced persons.
They live in shelters like a tent city on the edge of Gori which has been set up by international aid organisations.
The Whitney, the flagship of the US navy's Mediterranean fleet, has brought thousands of blankets, baby food, hygiene kits and infant products.
Two US ships have already come and gone from Georgia carrying humanitarian aid in recent weeks, but they anchored at a smaller port, Batumi, to the south.
This aid - on top of the (b) billion US dollar humanitarian assistance packaged promised by the US government - should go a long way toward helping people like Lena Shoshiashivili.
Like many others in the buffer zone between Gori and the breakaway South Ossetian region, she fled her home at the height of the conflict.
She and her family were able to escape with only the clothes on their back and a bit of laundry.
With no money and no home, Shoshiashivili now thinks they will be living in the tent city for many months to come.
But he said the Russians had denied him permission.
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